Nicola Sturgeon; Jung Chang; Gone With the Wind
WH power-lister and deputy first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon; Chinese cooking with writer Jung Chang; Gone With the Wind; and keeping safe while travelling at night.
Powerlister Nicola Sturgeon talks about being deputy first minister of Scotland and her political career. We look at the latest figures on forced marriage for people with learning difficulties. How should professionals best intervene? 75 years on and Gone With the Wind is being screened again. Why is it so enduring and what is the film's feminist appeal? What you need to know about travelling home safely after a christmas night out. And our 'Come Into My Kitchen' series continues as we visit the home of Wild Swans writer Jung Chang.
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Nicola Sturgeon, MSP and Woman's Hour Powerlister
Nicola Sturgeon talks to Jenni about her political career
Duration: 11:07
Travel Safety
Over 40% of women admit they are likely to take an illegal minicab home after a night out
Duration: 08:41
Come into my Kitchen - Jung Chang
The writer shows our reporter around her kitchen
Duration: 05:04
Gone With the Wind
What is the film’s feminist appeal?
Duration: 09:50
Forced marriage and people with learning disabilities
How should professionals best intervene?
Duration: 08:30
Nicola Sturgeon, MSP and Woman's Hour Powerlister
joined the Scottish National Party at the age of 16, and after training as a lawyer stood unsuccessfully to become an MP in the 1990s. Her political career took off after devolution when she was elected as an additional MSP in 1999. She became a member of the Scottish government and as health minister abolished prescription and hospital car parking charges. Now the Deputy Leader of the SNP, she has a central role in overseeing the referendum for Scottish Independence and has been involved in key negotiations with Westminster. She talks to Jenniabout her political career.
Travel Safety
Over 40% of women admit they arelikely to take an illegal minicab home after a night out, according to a new survey conducted in London, Manchester and Birmingham by .Siwan Hayward, Deputy Director of Enforcement and On-Street Operations at TfL who commissioned the and Hannah Betts,feminist writer and party-goer, discuss the issues with Jenni.
Come into my Kitchen - Jung Chang
Jung Changis best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans and has also written Mao, The Unknown Story. She writes at home, where she showedHenrietta Harrison around her kitchen.
Gone With The Wind
Seventy five yearsfrom it's first screening, what is it that makes Gone With the Wind so enduring andwhat is the film’s feminist appeal?Journalist Hannah Betts and Helen Taylor, author of Scarlett's Women: Gone With the Wind and Its Female Fans and Professor of English, Exeter University, join Jenni.
Forced marriage and people with learning disabilities
We look at the latest figures on forced marriage amongpeople with learning difficulties. How should professionals best intervene? The number of cases of forced marriage involving people with disabilities almost doubled from 66 in 2011 to 114 in 2012”. The government’s Forced Marriage Unit, a collaboration between the 鶹Լ Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, says this figure “does not reflect the full scale of abuse” and that many cases still go unreported – often because social workers and other frontline professionals are fearful of being branded culturally insensitive by the families of victims.
Guests: Rachael Clawson, a Lecturer in Social Work at Nottingham University and Sandie Keene, President of the .
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Role Contributor Presenter Jenni Murray Interviewed Guest Nicola Sturgeon Interviewed Guest Jung Chang Interviewed Guest Hannah Betts Interviewed Guest Siwan Hayward Interviewed Guest Helen Taylor Interviewed Guest Rachael Clawson Interviewed Guest Sandie Keene Producer Louise Corley Editor Karen Dalziel Broadcast
- Wed 18 Dec 2013 10:00鶹Լ Radio 4
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